Porteus

Too tired to fight it tonight. Its been a couple days worth already. I think the last suggestion there from brokenman is going to "get it", though. The wifi switch is on. Two reasons I'm sure. 1 is that I found it yesterday and made sure it was on. 2 is that the wifi works under other boot partition...

Rootcopy should work. If it does not then please create module containing you b43 firmware and the blacklist file. I guess you have added 'rootcopy=' cheatcode or have another porteus installation somewhere which are confusing init script. Nope, never heard of it before, and this is my first time t...

Ok, I got it working, but its not right. I found that if I copy the b43 subdirectory from /mnt/sdb1/porteus/rootcopy/lib/firmware to /lib/firmware after it boots, and then do a modprobe b43 That after that, I can go in and configure and connect to the wireless. I don't understand why it didn't work ...

That sounds like something that will work. Let me give it a try!

Do you think it will find a b43 driver? If not where would I put the file(s) so it can find it?

Thanks

Ok, I tried to shutdown again. And after it hung, I waited a bit, powered off, then powered back on and rebooted.

Then I went to kde sysyem settings, network, and it looks much like the wicd-gtk screen, but wireless is greyed out.

Still getting wl in lsmod. Still no b43

Any ideas?

Ok, thanks, I think I've got that done. I copied the xzm to /mnt/sdb1/porteus/modules. Hopefully that's where it belongss. I still don't think thats going to fix it though, because usually I have to get b43 to load, and I don't think that can load if wl is loading, and I haven't been able to remove ...

Thanks for the replies. I temporarily hard wired the pc to the router I found the USM and ran all updates, and then tried to search for wicd, but it didn't show it. It did come up with 11 programs to install, so I downloaded and istalled them but still doesn't show wicd. Is there a command line prog...

It shows up in lspci the same as under slackopup as a BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01) If Irun an lsmod | grep 802 the result is: cfg80211 1222308 1 wl rfkill 8196 3 cfg80211,bluetooth There is no wifi button that I know of, but I'll look. PS: there is a switch, but its in the on position

I installed to a flashdrive which now appears as sdb1. But I can't get wifi to work. The computer has a Broadcom 4311 rev 01 chip that usually works with the b43 driver in linux. I have tried 3 times now to blacklist the wl but it doesn't have any effect and it loads it anyway. i put a file in /mnt/...